chanted

Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
   • the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
   • The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
4. (archaic, transitive) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

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